OUR MISSION

be your partner in Energy Transition

NextChem is the partner to accelerate your Energy Transition and reduce your impact on the environment, creating new products from renewable feedstock and entering new markets with a non-fossil footprint, giving a contribution to sustainable development.

Thanks to our technological background and our leadership in the transformation of natural feedstocks, we are the ideal partner for the industrialization and commercialization of sustainable innovation.

Following the principle of low capital intensity, collaborations and scouting, we are able to bridge the gap between the idea born in the laboratory and production on an industrial scale. We are industrializers of innovation.

We have set our roadmap towards Energy Transition across three areas of activity.

OUR VISION

The global warming and the subsequent climate changes make more and more urgent to find solutions to drawdown the Carbon Dioxide emissions to the atmosphere.

To achieve such a result everyone, including but not limited to industrial sector and companies, should do its own best to accelerate the Energy Transition.
The path to success for sure will not be an easy promenade.

A long-term strategy, connecting the dots between research, technology and market issues will be required.

NextChem, industrializer of sustainability

The Energy Transition is ongoing. The social and economic impact of climate change on communities, environment, health is real, the demand from the market for green technologies, renewable energy, sustainable products, low impact services is concrete and almost all business sectors need to change their production patterns, looking for new technologies, designing new products, exploring new symbiosis with other sectors and building new markets.

The next decade is decisive to find out technological solutions to make the Energy Transition concrete. Through our subsidiary company NextChem we offer technological solutions to our clients to reduce the carbon impact of their traditional processes, develop new processes and products from non-fossil feedstocks and from renewable energy sources, improving their circular economy through recycling, waste to fuels and waste to chemicals.

We partner with our clients supporting them in finding their industrial adaptation strategies. We help them to improve their sustainability, face the new environmental requirements, offer new sustainable products and solutions, enter new markets. Consumers, communities and institutions are demanding climate-friendly products, services and processes and that demand will only grow: we are engineers, we industrialize innovation, we can help the industry to industrialize sustainability as well.

SUSTAINABILITY

Responding to the challenge: a strategy to meet future trends and drive change

The energy transition is driving both producers and customers to rethink their future needs and what kinds of products and solutions will be required to enable a sustainable future in terms of emissions waste and economics. The scale and complexity of the shift required are huge, but it will be driven by asset owners increasingly moving capital employed from traditional, legacy activities to new, greener assets and by customers placing a premium on sustainable products and consumption.

Increasing the pressure to address sustainability issues for the core business and to reduce CO₂ emissions from legacy assets is creating new opportunities for traditional players and new entrants, opening up new markets. Environmental remediation, renewable energy, recycling, and cleaner fuels are just a few examples of the new business areas. As plastics recycled from waste increase in volumes for instance, oil required as feedstock for the plastic industry will significantly reduce, shifting profit pool from the hydrocarbon industry to new segments of the value chain (e.g. waste collection and management, recycling, petrochemicals).

Although our renewable power continues to evolve rapidly and have greater impact, we are anticipating the next phase of change to increasingly reduce more and more the chemicals, plastic, and lubricants we waste, and increase our recycling, to see hydrogen scaling become a long-term solution and the continued to scale bio feedstock into transport fuels and petrochemicals.

Circularity implies a process of restoration and regeneration, in which materials constantly flow around a `closed loop` system, rather than being used once and then discarded; this means a need to develop and scale technologies for mechanical and chemical recycling, to adapt current industrial processes to use new circular feedstock deriving from waste, for the production of new, “circular” chemicals, or fuels, from waste.

The ability to develop partnerships between technology providers, industrial / energy companies, and feedstock management companies (be it waste or agricultural biomass) is a key success factor in developing green industry.

With a view to accelerating technological innovation in the energy transition, Maire Tecnimont is dedicating great attention, through NextChem, to developing technological solutions for improving waste recovery technologies in the circular economy, developing processes for the use of biological components as feedstock and innovations to reduce greenhouse emissions in traditional industrial processes.

NextChem is moving towards a more integrated approach where it acts as project developer of more articulated solutions. It orchestrates the work of the different players, be they industrial companies or producers, waste managers or suppliers, government authorities or regulators, or even investors. As such, NextChem is driving the establishment of new green business models, working alongside both producers and consumers to achieve a common goal that is taking up the energy transition challenge.

To deeply understand our Group’s strategy and activities and the role of NextChem, please read the 2021 Maire Tecnimont’s Sustainability Report here.

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